Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer. (1913)

Record Details:

Title:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer.
Date:
1913
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Department of Justice
Volume:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice
Leaf #:
00033
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 30, 2023
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Between the early p'irt of 1906, and December of that ye r, the Edison Company, in pursuance of its c ven'^nt in each of tliese licenses to enforce its reissued patents, brought suit on the camera reissue No. 12,037, against the National C meraphone Company in the Southern District of liew Yorlc, and r.lso brought forty-six suits on the Edison film reissue No. 12,192, one of the defendants being the Biograph Gotripany, and another George Kleine. Prior to December, 1908, nine suits had been brought by the Biograph Conip'^.ny under the Lathaun patent No. 707,934, dited August 26, 1902, one of the defendants bein;; the -dieon Company, another the Vitagraph Corapany of America, another the Kalem Company, another S. Lubin, another VilliRin N . Selig, and another the Kasanay Company. This pr.tent covered inventions absolutely essential in '.ill projectin^i machines and important also in iiotion picture camer^8, In projecting m .chines it is necessary to have devices that seize hold of the film nd move it positively, regularly, evenly and very r/pidly, without jarring, Jerking or slipping, the periods o f rest being gre ter than the periods of movenjent, as in the camera. The only device that was found practicable for -13